Contracts establish the responsibilities and rights of the parties. This highly interactive program will provide a practical hands-on approach to the effective management of contracts and offer techniques and contract strategies to assist this process. It will also assist in establishing an international risk management strategy regarding contracts and develop good business practices to take advantage of opportunities, enhance efficiency, and increase profitability.
Understand the necessary contractual and legal knowledge
Understand and apply the different types of agreements
Increase commercial awareness needed to enhance the smooth running of contracts
Increase the ability to manage contracts to reduce claims and conflict
Identify and mitigate risk factors and associated commercial and program implications
Understand the importance of good record-keeping and service of contractual notices
Increase the understanding of commercial liabilities resulting from schedule changes and variations
improve the ability, successfully to negotiate and maintain long term inter-business contracts with confidence
Understand the need to deal with issues as they arise and to resolve disputes within the contract structure wherever possible
Analyze, negotiate and implement the most appropriate method of resolving disputes preventing escalation by early identification
Contract Professionals
Tendering, Purchasing and Procurement Professionals
Project Management Professionals
Engineering, Operational, Finance, and Maintenance Professionals
The need for contractual relationships
External and internal dimensions of a business relationship
Formation of a Contract
The key elements of a contract
Oral or written?
Electronic contracts
Terms of the contract
Inter-business contracting
Law of Agency
Sources of Law
Developing legal knowledge and skills
Precedence of documents in a contract
Obligations to perform
Delivery, acceptance, and transfer of title and risk
ICC Incoterms
Liability in negligence - relationship with contract conditions
Product liability and defective goods
Intellectual Property clauses - some special issues
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a management concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns into their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders. CSR has been considered an efficient marketing tool for gaining the competitive advantages a company needs in order to be on top in the context of the current hyper-competitive environment.
You will learn vital skills for managing and creating content in this course. To help you establish a social media presence, you'll learn how to craft compelling social media posts and how to develop a powerful brand. Additionally, you'll discover how to create an ongoing procedure for handling your content. A content calendar should be created, postings should be managed and moderated, data should be analyzed for insights and iteration, and post effectiveness should be increased.
Are you under pressure from an ever-growing task list, conflicting demands and constantly changing priorities? Productive working practices are valuable skills in today’s work environment. Competition is intense and companies need people who can organize their time effectively, collaborate with others to achieve goals, and who constantly strive to better meet customer and stakeholder needs.
This popular course will support you to develop practices and techniques to manage this pressure proactively, allowing you to meet deadlines and deliver against your objectives. You will also develop skills in working well with others to ensure success.
The 5-Day Mini MBA is a unique distillation of the skills that need to be acquired in order to be considered successful in modern business. Not everyone is able to devote a year or two of their time to studying for a Masters in Business Administration, but in an age of rapid change in a highly competitive environment, it is crucial to have a thorough understanding of the issues involved in the smooth and successful running of a business. The 5 Day Mini MBA Leadership & Management Masterclass is a highly intensive training course covering all the usual subjects associated with an MBA. In 5 days, a delegate will learn what normally takes a year of full-time study. The Mini MBA course is designed to provide delegates with comprehensive knowledge of fundamental, proven strategies taught as both an academic and practical exercise. As a result, the course will provide a comprehensive understanding of the skills and knowledge that will be required for any person to further develop their business knowledge and skills and even to prepare them for actual formal study for an MBA. The course is designed to be delivered either as an “In House” class for an organization’s directors and senior management or as a public class where delegates from a number of companies can learn both from the course and from one another and exchange ideas and best practice.
Large capital-intensive projects in the oil and gas industries require substantial - and mostly risky - investments in the acquisition, exploration, and subsequent operation and maintenance of new organizational assets.
The decision of whether or not to invest in new capital projects in the oil and gas industry starts with critical decisions during the exploration phase of new development or the expansion of an existing field. The decision-making tools used to analyze project risk under conditions of uncertainty will help companies to determine the probability of success or loss and will drive the decision to develop or abandon the well.
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